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v APPLICATION FILED APR. 23, 1913'. l lgw Patented Dec. 9, 1913.

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Application filed April 23, lli. SerialNo. 762,994.

To all whom may concern:

Be it known that l, Bonner J. Macon, a subject oi the King of Great Britain,l and a resident of the city of Passaic7 in the State of New Jersey, have invented an improvement in Gars, of which the following de scription, in rconnection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

The, present invention relates to cane cars fastening means for the upright stakes or posts comprising the load retaining sides.

rlhe object here in view is to provide a more eiiicient fastening means or socket for the said stakes than those which are now and have hitherto been used. Such devices have been entirely ineilective to keep the stakes in rigid vertical alinement, a

condition diiicult to maintainbwing to the :tact that cane cars, in order that-they may readily be .loaded from above, are -constriicted without roots or other 'bracing'- been devisedy wherein the `stakes are main- 'means 'orthe stakes.

" practicable ierredto use ribbed iron stakes.

Generally, in unloading, one end'of car is tilted upward and the cane is -d1s ohaarged throu li a door at- -the'other end the frame of vs' ich is kept rigid by a transverse sill. fbviously, itis essential to y ractical dumping that the transverse thic ness of the load ci cane .be not substantially, greater than the opening in the door-frame. Therefore, if the stakes sag outwardly they will permit the load to bulge and consequently block the discharge opening. Wooden stakes have been found to be imnot alone onaccount of their tendency lto bend but also because of freuent breakage, so that it is generally' pre- IThe dificulty with respect to the latter, however,

- is .to provide stake retaining pockets acmaintained in a! vertical curately fitted to the metallic stakes and to maintain this condition 'during continued use. These sockets, or pockets as they are commonly known in the car art, are genorally made either oi cast iron or pressed steel; and when a metallic stake is used, an

Aabsolutely perfect fit must be had between the former is to be y position at all times by the pocket. `Such exact itting not only requires expensive and careful ma# chining but even such in the rst instance, tting will accomplish little toward the end the stake and pocket if in view when the cars are shipped, as is commonly the' case with cane cars, before v the stakes are assembled or placed in position in their pockets.

that where'c'ane cars'are sent to the tropics,

It will be understoodit is quite essential that they be collapsed so as to be shipped as flatly and as compactly as possible. sary for the user of the cars to assemble the stakes in their proper positions upon the cars when he receives em. Moreover, even ii' the stakes are accurately ittedto thev pockets in the first instance, the latter, par ticularly when made of pressed steel, soon become bent and deformed under the forces impartedthrough the stakes 'when the car 'is in use. lt thus happens thatfth old me;- tallic pockets .are entirely -ii'npracti-cable 'for s in cane cars, underithe conditions specie A For. the: purpose 'of overcoming such dificulties as .have been outlined above, the herein vdescribed stake fastening means has "tained in vertical lal'inement by their fastening 'means and thus permit the load to be dumped without choking the discharge opening.

The improvement is shown in the accompanying drawing of which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a suihcient portion of a car embodying the improvement to illustrate the same, and Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail view of one of the fastening means applied to the side of the car with the stake omitted, as said device would appear looking down upon the same. Referring to the drawings, a pair of plates Agz adapted to conform substantially to the flange on the stake b are secured to the side lt accordingly becomes necesmember c of a cane car by rivets or bolts d.

The stake Y), here shown as T-shaped, is slid into the openings between the said angle plates and is fastened there by means of bolts, or other suitable fastening means, e, The angle plates a, in addition to being deformed to conform substantially to the shape of the stakes` are so made that when fastened to the side sill of the car, theirr free sides f diverge more or less, as shown in Fig. 2. Thus, together about the stake by the fastening means e, their corner portions or shoulders g will press inwardly against the flange of the when these sides are drawn iifo right angles to the side plane of the car to take up the strain Within the stake caused by'the load, and the latter resting flatly against the side of the car to form a base for ymaintaining the stakein a vertical position.

IVhile the presentcase shows theuse ofv a T-iron stake, it is obvious that other forms suchas angles ori-beams may be employed equally as well. l

It may be pointed out thatthe present stake fastening means not only takes up less room itself than the original stake pockets, and hence makes the car floor more compact for shipping, but it is also much better able to resist hard usage to which it will be invariably subjected. A great many of the.

old stake pockets used to get badly bent in handling the cars in railroad yards and on' Steamship docks. It will be understood that the present improvements may be applied to all kinds of cars as Well as tocanecars.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a car, the combination With a stake having a ange and a rib, of a fastening device therefor comprising a pair of angles each having one side xed to the car and their other sides embracing said rib with.

the' corner portion of at least` one'of said angles pressed in against said flange. 2. Ina car, the combination with a stake `having a fiange and a rib, of a fastening device comprising a pairef angles deformed to fit substantially around the flange and embrace the rib, means to ysecure one side of each angle to the oar, and means to draw .the other sides of the angles' together about 3. In a car, the combination of a. T-shaped y stake, angle plates secured to the side member of the car, the fixed sides of said angle plates being deformed to fit-the l'iange of the `v stake and the free sides embracing t-he'rib of the stake, and a fastening member passing through said free sides and said rib.

In testimony whereof, I have signed'my I name to this specification, in the presence of twosubscribing' Witnesses, this 22nd day of April, 1913.

ROBERT J. MAGOR.

Witnesses:l

JOHN W. THOMPSON, t MANVEL WHrrrnMonn.

copies of this patent may be obtaned\t'or--ve\ eents each, by addressing-the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

